Plate XXIV. 



Fig. 206. HYLURGUS PINIPERDA, L., Curtis. \_F. Hylesinidje. G. Hyluvgus, Latr.} 



Elongate, sub-cylindrical, pitchy black, shining, clothed with a very short erect grey pubescence; 

 antennte and tarsi ferruginons. Head convex, finely and thickly punctate at the sides, rather 

 coarsely and sparsely in the middle ; with an acute, smooth, central, longitudinal ridge in front. 

 Thorax a trifle longer than broad, narrowed in front, slightly constricted at the apex, sides gently 

 rounded, posterior angles rounded ; rather coarsely and somewhat thickly punctate ; with a narrow, 

 slightly raised, smooth, central, longitudinal space. Scutellum thickly and finely punctate. 

 Elytra a little wider than the thorax, raised and serrated at the base ; each with eight rather 

 coarsely punctate striae ; interstices flat, transversely rugulose, with a row of minute pubescent 

 tubercles, reaching the extreme apex on the 1st and 3rd, but on the 2nd terminating at the 

 commencement of the oblique portion. Length, Ig-lj lines. 



Not uncommon. In and upon the young shoots of the Scotch fir (Ptn»s sylvestris). 



Fig. 207. HYLURGUS PINIPERDA, L., Curtis, var. d. \F. Hylesinidfe. G. Hylurgus, 



Latr-I 



The variety here represented is entirely of a pale reddish-yellow colour, and is probably merely 

 an immature state ; it occurs, not unfrequently, associated with the darker form. 



Fig. 208. MESITES TARDII, Curtis. (Male.) \_F. Cossonida;. G. Mesites, Schomh.l 

 (Cossonus Tardii, Curtis.') 



Elongate, pitchy black, sub-opaque ; antennfo reddish-brown. Head rather thickly, coarsely, 

 and deeply punctate in front, shallowly and sparsely behind, with an oblong fovea between the eyes ; 

 rostrum dilated before the apex, coarsely and rather sparsely punctate, with a deep, central, 

 abbreviated, longitudinal furrow ; antennae inserted two-fifths from the apes. Thorax elongate, 

 narrowed in front, constricted at the apex, sides rounded ; thickly, coarsely, and deeply punctate, 

 with a central, longitudinal, slightly raised, narrow, smooth space, terminating behind in a depression. 

 Elytra a little wider than the base of the thorax, and about one-fourth longer, sides nearly straight; 

 each with nine profound, deeply punctate, longitudinal stri» ; interstices flat, finely rugulose-punctate. 

 In the female, the antennw are inserted at one-fifth from the base, and the portion of the rostrum 

 in front of them is cylindrical, smooth, and of a reddish-brown colour. Length, 3-5j lines. 



Local, but abundant where it occurs. Mountains of ^Yicklow and Kerry, in hollies ; coast of 

 Devonshire and Cornwall, in beech and sycamore ; and, it is said, in Norfolk. 



Fig. 209. MIARUS GRAMINIS, Schoenh. \F. Cionidfe. G. Miarus, Schoenh.'] (Gym- 

 netron graminis, Curtis.) 



Short, ovate, black, clothed above with a fine, yellowish-grey, depressed piubescence. Head 

 globose, rather coarsely punctate; eyes large; rostrum elongate, slender, cylindrical, slightly curved, 

 obscurely punctate at the base, smooth from the base of the antenn£e to the apex. Thorax trans- 

 verse, convex narrowed in front ; sides rounded ; thickly, deeply, and rather coarsely punctate, 

 with a faint, central, longitudinal ridge. Elytra broad, with profound, deeply and remotely punctate, 

 longitudinal stria; ; interstices broader than the strise, flat, rugulose, each with two rows of yellowish- 

 grey hairs. Length, 1^-1 j lines. 



Not uncommon. Ainongst herbage on hedge-banks ; near London ; Cambridge ; Hertford ; &c. 



Fig. 210. ORCHESTES PRATENSIS, Germ. [F. Erirhinidje. G. Orchestes, Illiger.] 

 (0. Waltoni, Curtis.) 



Elongate, ovate, black, clothed with a short yellowish-grey pubescence ; antennse and tarsi 

 reddish-browii, club of the former dusky. Head thickly and finely punctate ; rostrum slender. 



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